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Versus (Director's Cut) Director: Ryuhei Kitamura Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Media Blasters, Inc Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 93 Average rating: 3.5 "Sheer fun" Take the violence, creepiness, and insanity of the Evil Dead series, the sweet battles and cool, humorous posing of a Robert Rodriguez flick ("Desperado" springs to mind), mix it with traditional samurai and yakuza elements and POW, instant cult classic! I own the director's cut so I don't know about this edition, but I don't imagine enough good stuff could be cut out to make this movie suck. Sure, there's almost no plot or meaningful dialogue, but if you're looking at this movie, I doubt that's what you were looking for to begin with. This is just pure cinematic coolness, not unlike "Kill Bill" in that sense. Sure, there's lots of cheese but it's GOOD cheese, the kind that draws attention to itself and delivers a laugh. I pity the people who take themselves so seriously that this kind of humor flies right over their head. Still, the lack of a real plot and some character inconsistencies that I can't elaborate on without terrible spoilers make me take one star away from the score. Only a truly flawless movie deserves 5 stars. Nonetheless, this movie should satisfy anybody who reads the above references and thinks "Cool!". If you think any of the above mentioned movies sucked, I suggest you take your business elsewhere. "DISSapointing!!" Versus is basically a evil dead/highlander wannabe and unfortunetly a bad one at that, the entire movie looks like it was shot somewhere in central park NYC. . it's like watching a 90 minute BALZAC video (BALZAC is the japanese version of the MISFITS) the english dubbing stinks and the zombies are boring if uninspiring. and the lead actor looks too much like johnnny depp for a second i thought it was actually him before he got the role of Pirates from the carribean.the ending wasn't too bad though. there are far better japanese movies available; i.e. JUNK,BATTLE ROYALE, PRINCESS BLADE, RETUNER..you get what i'm saying.. "Where's Bruce" Simply put... if you like Evil Dead you will like this movie. It is basically a Japanese version of Evil Dead with cooler fighting scenes but lacking Bruce and his great one liners. I've heard people complain about the dubbing... If you get a foreign film DO NOT WATCH IT DUBBED.. thats an important rule... it's all about subtitles... Anyways this movie is funny and has great fighting scenes but I kept expecting to see Brucey :(... One of the greatest fight scenes ever is at the end though. "This Special Edition, is the uncut one right?" If that is so, 5 stars, if its the edited version, well better save up for the uncut. This Special Edition, is the uncut one right? Anyone cares to answer? "Evil Dead Comparison = Blasphemy" If you've read the other reviews you already know the basics of this film. Its a kung fu flick with some zombies, over-the-top gore, horrible over-dubbing, annoying humor, fist fights, gun fights, and sword fights. The comparisons to Evil Dead, Reservoir Dogs, et cetera should cease. This film is nothing like either movie. The fights are decent, the gore is fun, but that still leaves this movie needing more to be taken seriously. If you're looking for a fun, dumb, gore-filled kung fu flick then get Versus.